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Daniel Beaulieu, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Jean Blackburn, Malaspina University-College
DLI Toolkit – A Crash Course in being the DLI Contact
The Statistics Canada/DLI Web site
Based on « Site web de l’IDD » presentation by Philippe Feredj, Université de Sherbrooke for Atelier de formation
IDD pour le Québec – (printemps 2004)
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OBJECTIVES
1. Provide new DLI members with an overview of the DLI section of the StatsCan web site;
2. Provide « not so new » DLI members with an overview of the DLI section of the StatsCan web site.
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Let’s start our presentation with Statistics Canada home page at http://www.statcan.ca/start.html
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DLI MEMBERS
There are 66 fellow liberationists ready to help you.
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Very important to get acquainted with people from Ottawa.
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Don’t you feel special when there is something just for you
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No need to archive all those emails from the DLILIST.
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Of course, I need a password. But where is it?
How to order a product?
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We have covered the « DLI Community » section. Let’s have a look at the « DLI Collection ».
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The DLI Collection
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2002 & 2003 products are not listed here
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Useful if you want to download from the Statcan FTP site.
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(bottom)
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To 36
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Search limited to titles & abstractswages
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Maybe I should ask my user to read some of this literature.
Then I can download the data file.
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Is there more information in Bibliocat?
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Absence from work
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BiblioCat offers basic information your user will need.
Let’s see the complete record. Click here
Observation: never underestimate a library catalogue
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Now, let’s go back to the « DLI Collection » web page
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How is this information useful? This file certainly needs some explanations. Why and when should I open it?
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We have covered the « DLI collection », let’s have a look at « Reports and reference material ».
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« Training material » this section’s heading should really be called --Reports, reference and training material--
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Observations• The DLI web site needs a more direct access from
StatsCan home page. Why not have a « University & College data » link;
• Many sections need to be explained:• The « Collection on the web » talk about
Census & geography files not available in this section but doesn’t tell you where to find them (view);• Reference are made to the « FTP collection » but no explanation to where it is, what it contains and how to get there? (view) ;
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Conclusion
• Which sections of the DLI web site have been useful to new DLI members?
• How the DLI web site is used by the « not so new » DLI members?
I would like to conclude this presentation by asking some questions to new and « not so new » data liberationists.
